Target Sighting Geometric Aids

ABSTRACT

A geometrically based target sighting aid stick-on for ready-made visors, goggles, glasses, monocles and sunglasses and a similar format for modifying visors, goggles, glasses, sunglasses, monocles and contact lenses during manufacture is presented. Either in stick-on, or original manufacturing process the invention is for single eye use and applies geometric target alignment patterns that allow the user to reduce the common errors that lead to poor target sighting and consequent inaccurate shooting. A second geometric stick-on method is accompanied by a second application method for use in the manufacture of visors, goggles, glasses, sunglasses, monocles and contact lenses. The geometric patterns may take any number of types and combinations of types, including but not limited to, the one hundred versions presented in this document. The invention holds for military applications with handguns, assault rifles, and both portable and mounted machine guns. It also holds for the collection of active sports described in this patent application.

Mechanical sights and/or optical scopes often support target sighting. In many cases optical scopes are impractical and a more simple practical approach is available is detailed here describing the use of a geometric target sighting aid adjusted for the dominant eye. The proposed sighting aid herein is attachable to visors, goggles, glasses, monocles and sunglasses or alternately put in place during manufacture of visors, goggles, glasses, monocles, sunglasses and contact lenses.

Target shooters in sports and the military suffer from reduced accuracy due to inadequate sighting support. A number of factors contribute to low targeting accuracy. The issue of rapid shooter movement, target movement, and the need to sight quickly amidst chaos combine to reduce performance. So also do acute viewing angles for the shooter's head and eyes, along with typical uncertainty as to which of the shooter's two eyes is in control, and the lack of a quiet time prior to shooting complete the combination of the various errors that are sought to be reduced by the invention.

Military air, sea and ground troops all suffer from targeting errors under said conditions in situations of attack and defense. Sports, particularly the more active versions, need the target sighting aid support for more accurate visual targeting results. Such active sports are; hockey, ringette, lacrosse, field hockey, football, basketball, badminton, tennis, ping pong, curling, golf, soccer, volleyball, and table pool.

Experts in the vision field known as Dynamic Visual Acuity are familiar with the error-laden syndrome described above. The above cited error issues arise when accurate targeting is required. Motion, either rapid or not gives rise to stress and resulting targeting errors. Errors increase further when target shooting involves acute angles of sight to any target. These experts emphasize issues regarding the dominant eye and the need to resolve targeting with the dominant eye in regard to improving target-shooting accuracy. A final requirement cited often by the said experts for the improvement of accuracy relates to the need for a ‘quiet moment’ of target sighting before the shot. This process is often referred to as a quiet or steady eye.

This invention relates to a geometric target sighting aid employing a stick-on attachment or in-situ [during manufacture] technology both suitable for traditionally used headgear; visors, goggles, glasses, sunglasses, monocles and contact lenses. The stick-on geometric aids are employed for ready-made visors, goggles, glasses, sunglasses, and monocles. The in-situ [during manufacture] geometric aids are employed in original manufacture of visors, goggles, glasses, sunglasses, monocles and contact lenses. The geometric target sighting aids improve results in target location, reduce extreme acute angle sighting, utilize the dominant eye, combat the stress of motion chaos, and will deliver a quiet eye period prior to shooting. The target sighting aids are appropriate wherever users can wear visors, goggles, glasses, sunglasses, monocles or contact lenses.

In both the stick-on and in-situ [during manufacture] method for visors, goggles, glasses, sunglasses, monocles and contact lenses all the said improved accuracy virtues are all incorporated.

The method of using the said geometric target sighting aid for; initial target location, sighting by the dominant eye, provision of quite time, chaos reduction, and reduction of acute sighting angles, are all equally appropriate for original manufacturing techniques for visors, goggles, glasses, sunglasses, monocles and contact lenses whereby geometric target sighting patterns are permanently installed in the headgear sighting path. The method substantially reduces binocular rivalry error thereby delivering improved targeting.

In the event of incorporation during manufacture of contact lenses, visors, goggles, glasses, monocles and sun glasses the specific medium may include any of the geometric technology for stick-on apparatus as well as one or more other manufacturing inclusions in said devices; thickness variation, index of refraction of material, imbedding of microscopic bubbles or other aids to change index of refraction or curvature, or partial said changes to the said manufactured headgear for purpose of accommodating the described target sighting accuracy advantages.

The geometric target sighting aid employs stick-on devices for ready-made headgear; visors, goggles, glasses, monocles and sunglasses. The geometric target sighting aid method during initial manufacture may also include the variation of optical properties, in or on the surface of material in the manufacture of; visors, goggles, glasses, sunglasses, monocles and contact lenses. The stick-on and original manufacturing methods hold for said active sports and in the military for handguns, assault rifles, and both portable and mounted machine guns.

In readymade head gear the target sighting aid, without vision obstruction, pertains to the application whereby attachment of a geometric aid is made by a stick-on to headgear employing clear, shaded or colored; squares, rectangles, circles, ellipses, concentric circles, concentric ellipses, pentagons, octagons, hexagons, polygons, combinations of above, or partial markings of clear, shaded or colored squares, rectangles, circles, ellipses, concentric circles, and concentric ellipses, pentagons, octagons, hexagons or polygons.

In the manufacturing of visors, goggles, glasses, monocles, sunglasses, and contact lenses the geometric target sighting aid may be incorporated in said headgear and contact lenses at manufacture by incorporation of, but not limited to types in FIGS. 1-100, in any manner such as to make their appearance visible to the user. The target sighting aid consisting of clear, shaded or colored squares, rectangles, concentric squares, concentric rectangles, circles, ellipses, concentric circles, concentric ellipses, pentagons, octagons, hexagons, polygons, combinations of above, or partial markings of clear, shaded or colored squares, rectangles, concentric squares, concentric rectangles, circles, ellipses, concentric circles, concentric ellipses, pentagons, octagons, hexagons, and polygons. Further geometric target sighting aids may be incorporated at manufacture appearing as sudden changes in device thickness, index of refraction, or curvature or partial said alterations by other means to affect a geometric target sighting aid in or on the device. This holds for handguns, assault rifles, and both portable and mounted machine guns and the collection of said active sports previously cited.

A sample set of geometric target sighting aids comprising target-sighting geometries figures and sizes are shown below. Such examples do not limit the invention geometries.

The target sighting aid geometry incorporates a method of facilitating the shooter's use of the device to improve the sighting of targets in the military and sports world. In the case of all military where sights are not closely adjacent to the shooter's eye the geometry in the target sighting aid is effective in improving accuracy. This is particularly true for handguns, assault rifles, and both portable and mounted machine guns and the active sports previously cited. This improved sighting includes the employment in sighting of the user's dominant eye, using a stick-on for ready-made visors, goggles, glasses, monocles, and sunglasses, and using similar or equivalent geometric patterns when embedding target sight aids in initial manufacture. The in-situ manufacture technique applies to visors, goggles, glasses, monocles, sunglasses and contact lenses. The embedded geometry includes the said geometric patterns or combinations thereof along with possible variation in headgear material thickness, index of refraction and/or the inclusion of microscopic bubbles in the manufactured viewing material.

Determination of the dominant eye is done by a commonly used technique. The simple procedure is to form a viewing window using both eyes and two hands showing a distant target in said hand window. Note the circle in the hands below, Figure B. Upon closing one eye, if the target is still visible the remaining open eye is the dominant eye. If the target view has moved or is not visible in the hand window the alternate [unopened] eye is the dominant eye.

The stick-on target sighting aids themselves consist of, but are not limited to the use of said prepared patterns [FIG. 1-100] for ready made head gear; visors, goggles, glasses, monocles, and sunglasses employing any or all among; clear, shaded or colored; squares, rectangles, circles, ellipses, concentric circles, concentric ellipses, pentagons, octagons, hexagons, polygons combinations of above, or partial markings of clear, shaded or colored; squares, rectangles, circles, ellipses, concentric circles, concentric ellipses, pentagons, octagons, hexagons, polygons or any combinations of geometric patterns that serve to improve the heretofore said errors in target sighting.

In original manufacture the target sighting geometric aids include the use of clear, shaded or colored circles, ellipses, concentric rings, concentric ellipses, pentagons, octagons, hexagons, polygons and/or sudden changes in said material thickness, index of refraction, microscopic bubbles or curvature or partial said changes or any combinations of geometric patterns in the viewing path and claiming to reduce the heretofore said errors in target sighting in the case of the manufacturing incorporation in visors, goggles, monocles, glasses, sunglasses and contact lenses.

The target sighting aid to be attached to ready-made visors, goggles, glasses or sunglasses is a stick-on pattern using a target engineered size and said prepared pattern for the stick-on application to the inside or outside surfaces of visors, goggles, glasses or sunglasses or monocles.

The target sighting aid geometry is selected by the user and added to ready manufactured surfaces of visors, goggles, glasses, sunglasses and monocles, after the prescribed tests for determining the dominant eye are completed. The referred to dominant eye tests are simple and conclusive. Once the target sighting aid is attached to any of; visors, goggles, glasses, sunglasses or monocles the dominant eye will control target-shooting activities whenever the user sights with the target sighting aid and an included geometry pattern.

The said target sighting aid patterns of locator markings as, but not limited to, FIGS. 1 to -100, are produced for use as markings such that each geometric size is determined by the military or sporting target sizes themselves. The variation in said target sizing depends on the range and initial target size. The concentric marking diameters are determined by the needs of each application being either the said military or said active sports mentioned.

The target sighting aid geometric stick-on pattern may be removed and relocated to improve the installation by more precise positioning for use with the dominant eye in the event of small error in initial placement of the stick-on geometry.

Users may elect to employ several different target-sighting aids for different occasions such as different sports using said visors, goggles, glasses, sunglasses, and monocles.

EXPLANATION OF FIGURES A, B, C, D, E.

Figure A: is a pictorial of the location of the manufactured Target Sighting Geometric Aid stuck on a visor which would be affixed to a helmet. Design of said stick-on is in FIGS. 1-100 above.

Figure B: is a pictorial of a player, with helmet and with affixed visor with said location over dominant eye shown. Design of said stick-on is in FIGS. 1-100 above.

Figure C: a pictorial of a typical military Assault Rifle depicting the lack of any sighting scope mounted, and hence usable with the Target Sighting Geometric Aid to assist in accurate sighting. The stick-on in this case would be affixed to a head worn-goggle of standard version, not shown.

Figure C: a pictorial of a typical military Machine Gun depicting the lack of any sighting scope mounted, and hence usable with the Target Sighting Geometric Aid to assist in accurate sighting. The stick-on in this case would be affixed to a head-worn goggle of standard version, not shown.

Figure D: a pictorial of the standard method of testing for dominant eyes. The figure depicts a folded hand created with both eyes open and a circular figure is evident. The closure of the dominant eye will force movement by the circular figure, hence the closed eye is identified as the dominant eye. If there is no movement by the circular figure the NON-DOMINANT eye was closed, and the dominant eye is the one that had remained open.

EXPLANATION OF FIGS. 1 THROUGH 100

FIGS. 1 through 100 depict probable types and example sizes for patterns of geometric figures for the target sighting aids but target sighting aid geometries shall not be limited to this series of figures.

Different sizes represent the result of the sizing process whereby the employed figure is matched to situational target sizes. Huge targets require a greater view opening than smaller targets. As a result they are the physically larger geometric target sight aids. Different target sighting aid geometry will be matched to the target geometry such that the target is ‘highlighted’ by the target sighting aid geometry when viewing hence the user quickly adapts to the sighting process providing improved performance in target sighting and subsequent target shooting accuracy. 

What is claimed is:
 1. A geometric target sighting aid; consisting of a stick-on or originally manufactured specific geometry pattern, point or combination of any geometry, pattern or point such that, using any of; visors, goggles, glasses, sunglasses, monocles and contact lenses intended for, or deemed to be intended for, target location, target sighting and target shooting accuracy reduces all said errors in visual targeting, this holds for handguns, assault rifles, and both portable and mounted machine guns and the collection of said active sports cited.
 2. A major error that is reduced is binocular rivalry error thereby delivering improved targeting precision
 3. A target sighting aid geometric pattern dominant eye target alignment with any included specific geometry, including but not limited to types in FIGS. 1-100 cited herein, using any of said visors, goggles, glasses, sunglasses, monocles and contact lenses where the geometry is sized to indicate the approximate distance to a viewed target, this holds for handguns, assault rifles, and both portable and mounted machine guns and the collection of said active sports cited.
 4. The target sighting aid, as in (1) and (2) above, with any included specific geometry, including but not limited to types in FIGS. 1-100, using any of said visors, goggles, glasses or sunglasses, monocles and contact lenses reduce the combined effect of cited targeting errors, this holds for handguns, assault rifles, and both portable and mounted machine guns and the collection of said active sports cited.
 5. The target sighting aid with any included specific geometry, as in (1) and (2) above, including but not limited to types in FIGS. 1-100, using any of; visors, goggles, glasses, sunglasses, monocles and contact lenses create high target shooting accuracy despite movement of the user, this holds for handguns, assault rifles, and both portable and mounted machine guns and the collection of said active sports cited.
 6. The target sighting aid with any included specific geometry, as in (1) and (2) above, including but not limited to types in FIGS. 1-100, using any of; visors, goggles, glasses, sunglasses, monocles and contact lenses create high target shooting accuracy despite movement of the target, this holds for handguns, assault rifles, and both portable and mounted machine guns and the collection of said active sports cited.
 7. The target sighting aid with any included specific geometry, as in (1) and (2) above, including but not limited to types in FIGS. 1-100, can, using any of; visors, goggles, glasses, sunglasses, monocles and contact lenses can be located to assist the dominant eye and be mounted such as to force this dominance to be the main sighting mechanism thereby increasing target sighting accuracy, this holds for handguns, assault rifles, and both portable and mounted machine guns and the collection of said active sports cited and, the target sighting aid with any included specific geometry, as in (1) and (2) above, including but not limited to types in FIGS. 1-100, using any of; visors, goggles, glasses, sunglasses, monocles and contact lenses will assist in holding the dominant eye steady prior to the shot when the user maintains the target sighting aid's included geometry steady on the target, this holds for handguns, assault rifles, and both portable and mounted machine guns and the collection of said active sports cited.
 8. The target sighting aid with any included specific geometry, as in (1) and (2) above, including but not limited to types in FIGS. 1-100, using any of; visors, goggles, glasses, sunglasses, monocles and contact lenses will identify the need to approach the target to improve the target shooting accuracy by virtue of the size of the target in the target sighting aid sized geometric viewer, this holds for handguns, assault rifles, and both portable and mounted machine guns and the collection of said active sports cited.
 9. The target sighting aid with any included specific geometry, as in (1) and (2) above, including but not limited to types in FIGS. 1-100, using any of; visors, goggles, glasses, sunglasses, monocles and contact lenses will increase the resolution of the target amidst a background of target confusion, motion and chaos, this holds for handguns, assault rifles, and both portable and mounted machine guns and the collection of said active sports cited.
 10. The target sighting aid with any included specific geometry, as in (1) and (2) above, including but not limited to types in FIGS. 1-100, using any of; visors, goggles, glasses, sunglasses, monocles and contact lenses can become habitual in that its use becomes increasingly fast and efficient with increasing practice, this holds for handguns, assault rifles, and both portable and mounted machine guns and the collection of said active sports cited.
 11. The target sighting stick-on aid with any included specific geometry, as in (1) and (2) above, including but not limited to types in FIGS. 1-100, using any of; visors, goggles, glasses, sunglasses, monocles and contact lenses may be removed and re-positioned if the user finds that the wished for accuracy is below requirements using any of said visors, goggles, glasses, sunglasses, and monocles.
 12. The target sighting stick-on aid with any included specific geometry, as in (1) and (2) above, including but not limited to types in FIGS. 1-100, using any of; visors, goggles, glasses, sunglasses, and monocles allows a change from one type of target sighting pattern to another employing specific geometry as in FIGS. 1-100 and possible combinations thereof.
 13. The target sighting aid with any included specific geometry, as in (1) and (2) above, including but not limited to types in FIGS. 1-100, that using any of; visors, goggles, glasses, sunglasses, monocles and contact lenses make target resolution habitually accurate.
 14. The target sighting aid with any included specific geometry, as in (1) and (2) above, including but not limited to types in FIGS. 1-100, using any of; visors, goggles, glasses, sunglasses, monocles and contact lenses make target resolution more rapid.
 15. The target sighting aid with any included specific geometry, as in (1) and (2) above, including but not limited to types in FIGS. 1-100, using any of; visors, goggles, glasses, sunglasses, monocles and contact lenses, assists in holding the target resolution for enough time to create the said needed quite eye to increase shooting accuracy.
 16. The target sighting aid with any included specific geometry, as in (1) and (2) above, including but not limited to types in FIGS. 1-100, using any of; visors, goggles, glasses, sunglasses, monocles and contact lenses, provides improvement in hand-eye coordination that improves military or sporting targeting effectiveness.
 17. The target sighting aid with any included specific geometry, as in (1) and (2) above, including but not limited to types in FIGS. 1-100, using any of; visors, goggles, glasses, sunglasses, monocles and contact lenses reduces errors in shooting, this is particularly true for handguns, assault rifles, and both portable and mounted machine guns.
 18. The target sighting aid with any included specific geometry, as in (1) and (2) above, including but not limited to types in FIGS. 1-100, using any of; visors, goggles, glasses, sunglasses, monocles and contact lenses provides reduction in chaos stress by holding the target steady in the target sighting aid markings thereby reducing errors due to stress, this is particularly true for handguns, assault rifles, and both portable and mounted machine guns.
 19. The target sighting aid with any included specific geometry, as in (1) and (2) above, including but not limited to types in FIGS. 1-100, using any of; visors, goggles, glasses, sunglasses, monocles and contact lenses provides opportunity for the user to select from said geometric patterns one that optimizes shooting accuracy for any specific target, this is particularly true for handguns, assault rifles, and both portable and mounted machine guns.
 20. The target sighting aid with any included specific geometry, as in (1) and (2) above, including but not limited to types in FIGS. 1-100, using any of; visors, goggles, glasses, sunglasses, monocles and contact lenses, allows all sources of targeting errors to be minimized; including target movement, shooter movement, acute angle vision, and normal inability to force the dominant eye to be the targeting eye, this is particularly true for handguns, assault rifles, and both portable and mounted machine guns. 